Definition of "perinephric" [perinephric]

• Around the kidney. (adjective)

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• "“He is status post treatment for sepsis and perinephric abscess with renal failure on the basis of acute tubular necrosis from sepsis.”"
• "The kidney may also be misplaced as an acquired condition; in these cases the kidney is mobile in the tissues by which it is surrounded, moving with the capsule in the perinephric tissues."
• "The diaphragm separates the kidney from the pleura, which dips down to form the phrenicocostal sinus, but frequently the muscular fibers of the diaphragm are defective or absent over a triangular area immediately above the lateral lumbocostal arch, and when this is the case the perinephric areolar tissue is in contact with the diaphragmatic pleura."